[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #7764: Making the attachments independent of the posts they belong too

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#7764: Making the attachments independent of the posts they belong too
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 Reporter:  ShaneF       |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.9      
Component:  General      |      Version:  2.7      
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |  
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Comment (by ShaneF):

 Every time I dive into the posts table, and I see attachments in the
 "posts" table it really confuses me. Same with "pages" and "revisions" but
 that's another story. This "ticket" is not in protest of attachments
 (images, video, audio) using postmeta table to hold data information.

 Now certain columns can be brought over to a new "attachment" table, but
 if people are worried about [gallery] being broken because it wouldn't
 link to the post. My revised idea of ticket #7607 using part of this idea,
 postmeta would hold attachment index "_wp_attachments" with the post_id
 linking to the page/post would keep video.php, audio.php, and image.php
 working correctly and able to create and index of "galleries" for easy
 inserting on any page (maybe add a "type" tag to the [gallery] shortcode
 btw..)

 With attachments not attached directly to posts, attachments in their
 singular mode could be still searched with tags, up-load date, filename,
 etc. I still think this can be pulled off for 2.7 since the changes would
 just be table changes and upgrade script.

 This is my new dedicated code if given the go ahead.

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